I used machine learning to learn speech videos related to political figures in human history, and used the training results to control their childhood photos for speeches. The work is composed of several video installations, forming an absurd speech venue:
For exemple:
1. Hitler re-speaks the Chaplin's speech at the end of the film "The Great Dictator". In this speech, Chaplin urged people not to become machines. Today, people’s emotions are input into algorithms, algorithms also in turn affect people's mood and even ideology. Political figures elected by humans are the agents of most people's ideologies, and can algorithms carry people's ideologies to form agents?
2. Bush gave a television "speech" in his childhood: The speech was based on his television speech before the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
3. The childhood photos of Trump vowed to deliver his congressional speech after his victory in the 2016 election. In the speech, he imagined the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. As the speech deepened, because of the imperfection of the algorithm, Trump's face followed the speech and twisted.
4. Ugandan dictator Idi · Amin called himself a contribution to the economic independence of the Ugandan people in an interview in 2000 after he stepped down, and said that if the Ugandan people need him, he will return to Uganda to make more contributions…
5. Kim Jong-Il’s childhood photo was driven by the image of the famous North Korean broadcaster Lee Chun Ji: congratulations on his inauguration as the general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
6.Bin Laden said that the 9/11 terrorist attacks opened the door to destroying the United States. The horror that the United States felt under the 9/11 air attacks was the oppression that the Muslim world has felt for 80 years.
7. As a child, Stalin took the oath to join the Young Pioneers
Do today’s media and other technologies make people look like children who can't think deeply, are easy to deceive, and don't need to be responsible for their words and actions?
Today's artificial intelligence is in the childhood stage，when the algorithm learns to participate in human management, will it evolve into a dictator's way of thinking and become a tyrant, or will the algorithm itself evolve into a tyranny?
